15/10/12 An interesting start to the project the Heygate shoots are particulary strong. However you must remember that the examiner will look at your work and make a judgment on it without having any prior knowledge of your work. With this in mind you must make sure that you annotate all your work and lead them through step by step. This is also the case with the way you look at other artists work. Make it clear that you have an understanding of their work but not just on a purely asthectic level. You must look at the work on a deeper level and clearly demonstarte how they have influenced your own visual practise.
15/11/12
Interesting progress has been made and you are starting to tackle quite deep issues.
Firstly I would like to see Nadav Kanders chenobly project (half life) put into your work. Visually this project fits in perfectly with your theme the struggle between man and nature. The pictures show the decomposing man made environment being grown over and reclaimed by the natural world.
I think that the project could progress in a number of ways please see below for possible suggestions and artist links
The idea that man creates buildings project for particular moments in history but when that moment is gone what happens. See below an interesting link where a photographer has looked at the Olmpic stadium in greece and how it has been left to go to rack and ruin and nature has started to reclaim it.
Another interesting series is by a photographer called Jo Killick he did a series called desolation in which he created a a mythical presence which he named desolation and tracked its progress as it ravaged the human environment living behind derelict landscapes that were being reclaim by nature.
Another photographer you could look at is Catherine yass in her buried series. She took photographs of man made environments and then physically had nature impact on the work. By burring it putting it in canals to be a representation of the physical impact nature has on the man made environment.